Shelter (Leon Russell)
Barking Pumpkin (Frank Zappa)
Swan Song (Led Zeppelin)
Bearsville (Todd Rundgren)
Wednesday Week, apparently, are a Bangles soundalike group, and the Bangles have an alliterative song with a day of the week: Manic Monday
(also Wednesday Week may be the name of an Undertones song)
date added: 8/3/2024
date added: 4/28/2024
The books in that file are:
Ancient Times: A History of the Early World, 2nd ed (1944), James Henry Breasted
A Survey of Ancient History: To the Death of Constantine (1929), M. L. W. Laistner [solid-color cover, skipped]
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, Erich Auerbach (Translated from the German by Willard Trask) (1953)
The Death of Tragedy, George Steiner (1961)
Mythologies of the Ancient World, ed. Samuel Noah Kramer (1961)
Europe in the Seventeenth Century, David Ogg (1960)
Froissart’s Chronicles, Translated and Edited by John Jolliffe [Modern Library], (1969 ml; 1968, John Jolliffe)
The Literary Criticism of John Ruskin, ed Harold Bloom (1965)
The History of the Popes, Enrico Lancioni (1978)
Saints for All Seasons, ed John J. Delaney (1979)
Man and His Symbols, ed Carl G. Jung (1968)
Mont-Saint-Michel & Chartres, Henry Adams (1905)
Foxe's Book of Martyrs, ed Marie Gentert King (1968; 1975 pr)
date added: 3/25/2024
(or do you say Yazoo?)
In My Room
Only You
Sweet Thing
Mr Blue
Good Times
Walk Away From Love
date added: 12/26/2023
Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Country Albums of All Time (from RS 8/30/2022)
1. Dolly Parton - Coat of Many Colors
2. Waylon Jennings - Dreaming My Dreams
3. Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger
4. Ray Charles - Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
5. Dixie Chicks - Fly
6. Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
7. Merle Haggard - Serving 190 Proof
8. Shania Twain - Come on Over
9. Randy Travis - Storms of Life
10. Taylor Swift - Fearless
11. Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
12. The Judds - Why Not Me
13. Miranda Lambert - The Weight of These Wings
14. George Jones - I Am What I Am
15. Patsy Cline - Showcase
16. Tom T. Hall - In Search of a Song
17. Loretta Lynn - Coal Miner's Daughter
18. Gary Stewart - Out of Hand
19. George Strait - Strait from the Heart
20. Rosanne Cash - Seven Year Ache
21. Kris Kristofferson - Kristofferson
22. John Prine - John Prine
23. The Carter Family - Can The Circle Be Unbroken: Country Music's First Family
24. Guy Clark - Old No. 1
25. Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
26. John Anderson - Wild & Blue
27. Sammi Smith - Help Me Make It Through the Night
28. Waylon Jennings - Honky Tonk Heroes
29. Hank Williams - Moanin' the Blues
30. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
31. Clint Black - Killin' Time
32. Johnny Paycheck - Take This Job and Shove It
33. Emmylou Harris - Pieces of the Sky
34. Chris Stapleton - Traveller
35. Johnny Cash - Unchained
36. Merle Haggard - I'm a Lonesome Fugitive
37. Charley Pride - Charley Pride's 10th Album
38. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Will the Circle Be Unbroken
39. Willie Nelson - Stardust
40. Lee Ann Womack - I Hope You Dance
41. Garth Brooks - No Fences
42. Tanya Tucker - While I'm Livin'
43. Eric Church - Chief
44. Jimmie Rodgers - RCA Country Legends
45. Charlie Rich - Behind Closed Doors
46. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - Anthology 1935-1973
47. Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris - Trio
48. Jerry Lee Lewis - Another Place Another Time
49. Tammy Wynette - D-I-V-O-R-C-E
50. Iris DeMent - Infamous Angel
51. Willie Nelson - Phases and Stages
52. Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)
53. Steve Earle - Guitar Town
54. Pistol Annies - Hell on Heels
55. Roger Miller - Roger and Out
56. Jeannie C. Riley - Harper Valley P.T.A
57. Reba McEntire - Rumor Has It
58. Terry Allen - Lubbock (On Everything)
59. Merle Haggard - Mama Tried
60. Bobbie Gentry - Ode To Billie Joe
61. Patty Loveless - When Fallen Angels Fly
62. Lefty Frizzell - Look What Thoughts Will Do
63. Buck Owens And The Buckaroos - Carnegie Hall Concert
64. Various Artists - From Where I Stand: The Black Experience in Country Music
65. Lester Flatt And Earl Scruggs - Foggy Mountain Jamboree
66. Dwight Yoakam - This Time
67. George Jones & Tammy Wynette - Golden Ring
68. Jerry Jeff Walker - ¡Viva Terlingua!
69. The Louvin Brothers - Satan Is Real
70. Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard - Hazel & Alice
71. Dolly Parton - Here You Come Again
72. Elvis Presley - Elvis Country
73. Linda Martell - Color Me Country
74. Jason Isbell - Southeastern
75. Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come On Come On
76. Hank Williams, Jr. - Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound
77. Dierks Bentley - Up on the Ridge
78. Alan Jackson - Don't Rock the Jukebox
79. Alison Krauss & Union Station - Every Time You Say Goodbye
80. Vince Gill - When Love Finds You
81. Margo Price - Midwest Farmer's Daughter
82. Brandy Clark - 12 Stories
83. Freddy Fender - Before the Next Teardrop Falls
84. Jessi Colter - I'm Jessi Colter
85. Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs
86. Brad Paisley - American Saturday Night
87. Faith Hill - Faith
88. Glen Campbell - Ghost on the Canvas
89. The Maddox Brothers & Rose - America's Most Colorful Hillbilly Band
90. Hank Snow - The Essential Hank Snow
91. Connie Smith - Connie Smith
92. The Flying Burrito Brothers - The Gilded Palace of Sin
93. The Highwomen - The Highwomen
94. Kenny Rogers - The Gambler
95. Ernest Tubb - The Ernest Tubb Story
96. Hank Thompson - A Six Pack to Go
97. The Flatlanders - More a Legend Than a Band
98. Keith Urban - Golden Road
99. Kitty Wells - Country Hit Parade
100. Kenny Chesney - No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems
Date added: 8/9/2023
Did you know that Cannonball Adderley picked up his nickname because he ate like a “cannibal”?
If not, check out the excerpt of a book I've posted:
Date added: 1/28/2015
She's My Best Friend, Velvet Underground
You Can't Do That, Beatles
Simple Twist of Fate, Bob Dylan
Greatest Discovery, Elton John (1st alb)
West End Girls, Pet Shop Boys
Bugle Boy, Matt Johnson (Burning Blue Soul)
Where the River Goes, Stone Temple Pilots
I Feel Love, Donna Summer
Thought I Knew You, Matthew Sweet
Losing My Religion, R.E.M.
Chicken with Its Head Cut Off, Magnetic Fields
Time Passages, Al Stewart
Gimme Three Steps, Lynyrd Skynyrd
Jug Band Music, Lovin' Spoonful
Song for Europe, Roxy Music
While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Beatles
Don't Go Breaking My Heart, Elton John & Kiki Dee
Soul Deep, Box Tops
Credit: Richie Unterberger's allmusic review of the Rushmore soundtrack
Float On, Modest Mouse
Never, Never, The Assembly (with Feargal Sharkey singing)
Date added: 8/4/2013
Two new wave, two ragtime, and a new wave precursor?
Frustration, Soft Cell, embodies frustration in the disjointedness of the rhythm
Haywire, Aztec Camera, embodies its title in the style of the chorus
Stumbling, Zez Confrey
Kitten on the Keys, Zez Confrey
Here Come the Warm Jets, Eno
Date added: 7/4/2012
Date added: 6/24/2012
In 1984 the Smiths dug Sandie Shaw out of the mothballs to do a version of their Hand in Glove. In 1969 she did a song called Heaven Knows I'm Missing Him Now; the Smiths of course did a song called Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
Date added: 6/19/2012
Low, Cracker
Synchronicity II, Police
“miles,” in the line “many miles away” pronounced normally first two times it's used; turned into two syllables at the end-of-song repetition of the “many miles away” line
Other pronunciation weirdness in the song is “Scottish lake” to “Scottish loch” back to “Scottish lake”
The word “migraine,” pronounced “mee-graine” in Natural's Not in It, Gang of Four
“Venus de Milo,” pronounced “de Mee-lo” in Venus de Milo, Television
Northern brits Gang of Four can claim cute, quirky regional exemption, but what's Tom Verlaine's excuse?
Date added: 6/17/2012
Richard Meltzer quote: “A hundred percent of the two best-dressed men at Monterey both up and died. They were … Brian and Jimi”
Eisen, ed., Twenty-minute Fandangos, p. 218
Date added: 5/14/2012
As a record collector, I can relate …
1. BEANIE BABY WALK 2:57
A toe-tappin' tribute to Beanie collectors and the fun of shows and friends
beanie-baby-walk-six-akimbo.mp3
2. BEANIE BABY BOOGIE 4:35
Sing along with the names of 87 of Janet's favorite Beanies
beanie-baby-boogie-six-akimbo.mp3
3. IN SOME SMALL WAY 4:52
A song that expresses the heart of all collectors
in-some-small-way-six-akimbo.mp3
4. ONLY BABY 4:35 (The broken hearted guy version)
Beanies gone Nashville. A hilarious look at lost love and the undying faithfulness of Beanies
Extra credit: what 70s classic country song is this a soundalike to? find my email in special_areas:about
5. GONE COLLECTIN' “Janet's Song” 2:37
An upbeat instrumental with a bluegrass feel
gone-collectin-janet-s-song-six-akimbo.mp3
6. BEANIE BIRTHDAY SING-ALONG 3:50
Teach your kids the months of the year as they yell out the names of Beanies on the month they were born
beanie-birthday-sing-along-six-akimbo.mp3
7. THE DRIVE THRU “The Teenie Beanie Song” 3:49
Hysterical look at a day in the life of a crazed plush toy collector
the-drive-thru-the-teenie-beanie-song-six-akimbo.mp3
8. BEANIE LULLABY “Hearts In Starlight” 3:42
A Beanie lullaby
Keep listening for more Beanie FUN …
ONLY BABY (The broken hearted gal version) 2:52
The female side of the pain-of-lost-love story
only-baby-the-broken-hearted-gal-version-six-akimbo.mp3
GONE COLLECTIN' (Reprise) 1:36
The musicians wouldn't leave the studio until we let them loose on this great tune for a second time
gone-collectin-reprise-six-akimbo.mp3
If you haven't been part of the Beanie Baby craze, you must have been spending a lot of time on Mars. There's never been anything like it. So Rooster Records in concert with Six Akimbo, has put together this CD to add to the festivities. We've used 25 musicians and 5 different solo artists. The songs range from lush ballads like In Some Small Way, a song that expresses the heart of all collectors, to The Drive Thru, an hysterical look at a day in the life of a crazed plush-toy collector. We hope you get as much pleasure listening to this album as we got from making it.
BEANIE BABY WALK
I never wanted to collect them
I was only gonna get one or two
But once you get started
They're kinda like a part of you
And I've got twenty dollars
And a couple hundred dollars on top
I just want the cute ones
Then I'm pretty sure I'll stop
CHORUS
Beanie World is calling
Mine are worth more everyday
Buy 'em when you find 'em
Don't let a good deal get away
I could have had worse habits
That's what I'll always say
How much is enough?
How much is enough?
How much is enough?
One more Beanie Baby
Gotta get a Beanie Baby
Gonna do the Beanie Baby Walk
(repeat 3 times)
Pretty in purple
Pretty in blue and green
Colors of nature
Combinations I've never seen
So I'm takin' my daughter
Going to the Beanie Baby show
They've got our favorite
Which one it is we just don't know
REPEAT CHORUS
And I've got these good friends
And we're walking this Beanie Baby show
There's one next weekend
You can bet that we're gonna go
Cause I've got twenty dollars
And a retired Beanie Baby on top
Come meet some new friends
Maybe we can Beanie Baby swap
REPEAT CHORUS
BEANIE BABY BOOGIE
Oh, well, yes indeed,
Hello, cowboys and se�oritas
Beanie Ken gonna sing a little song for ya
Help ya learn the names of the Beanies, right here
If you would please sing along
Oh, the Beanie Baby Boogie, let's go
Skip, Dotty, Bones, Inky
Snip, Hissy, Nuts, Iggy
Snort, Jolly Twigs, Baldy
There's Spike, Happy, Waves, Stinky
Crunch, Blacky, Ears, Daisy
Erin, Lucky, Stripes, Patti
Look at the Beanies boogie
CHORUS
Beanie Baby Boogie
Beanie Baby Boogie
Beanie Baby Boogie
Beanie Baby Boogie
Beanie Baby Boogie
Beanie Baby Boogie
Beanie Baby Boogie
Beanie Baby Boogie
Beanie Baby Boogie
All the babies are in the house
Grunt, Lefty, Tusk, Lizzy
Splash, Speedy, Spot, Sparky
There's Flash, Righty, Nip, Ally
Here comes Hool, Kiwi, Trap, Goldie
Rip, Spooky, Stinky, Bucky
Web, Cubbie, Caw, Manny
Look at the Beanies rock
REPEAT CHORUS
Here comes Fleece, Gracie, Scoop, Scortie
Mage, Chilly, Tank, Humphrey
There's Digger, Bessie, Legs, Pinky
How about Pooch, Doby, Chip, Spunky
Rover, Ziggy, Zip, Tuffy
Mel, Brownie, Waddle, Smoochy
Hey, the Beanies are here
REPEAT CHORUS
Echo, Curly, Maple, Batty
Blizzard, Pugsly, Mystic, Derby
Peanut, Sly, Ringo, Floppity
Peace, Roary, Putter, Hoppity
And there's a whole gang of bears named Teddy
Cause every Beanie's in the house
REPEAT CHORUS three times
IN SOME SMALL WAY
Sometimes small things
Can help me understand
The place I share with all, great and small
My pledge to protect
To love and respect
The precious life this earth has to offer
I hold it
CHORUS
In Some Small Way
I can touch something precious
I can hold something in my hands
That's worth more each day … forever
And in some small way
I can share it with another
I can embrace something priceless
In Some Small Way
Just one small change
In the way we see our world
Can help to make each day, a little better In every way
The little things we share
Can make our hearts and minds, a little better, together
REPEAT CHORUS
I can see a better place
I can love for both of us
I can see a better place
I can love for both of us
CHORUS
ONLY BABY
You know it's been a while, dear
Since you broke this heart of mine
But now I've found some new friends
To help me pass the time
CHORUS
They may be just little stuffed critters
But to me they mean alot
Cause my Beanie, Beanie Baby's
The only baby that I got
Those warm and fuzzy feelings
That I once shared with you
I now get from my babies
You've found someone new
Beanie Babies stay true
They don't fuss they don't complain
You'll find your new love
Will only bring you pain
REPEAT CHORUS
Sometimes when I think about it
You know it doesn't seem right
A little cotton kitty
Close as I'm comin' tonight
REPEAT CHORUS
GONE COLLECTIN'
Instrumental
BEANIE BIRTHDAY SING-ALONG
HINT: There are many places to find the birthdays of your favorite Beanies. When it comes to the right month, shout out your favorite Beanie of that month's name.
Every Beanie Baby has a special day
You can learn the months in a special way
Listen to the questions and shout the names
It's the Beanie Birthday Sing-Along song
Which Beanie Babies where born in January?
Which Beanie Babies where born in February?
Which Beanie Babies where born in March?
Which Beanie Babies where born in April?
January, February, March and April
Which Beanie Babies where born in May?
Which Beanie Babies where born in June?
Which Beanie Babies where born in July?
Which Beanie Babies where born in August?
January, February, March and April
May, June, July, & August
Which Beanie Babies where born in September?
Which Beanie Babies where born in October?
Which Beanie Babies where born in November?
Which Beanie Babies where born in December?
January, February, March and April
May, June, July, & August
September, October, November, December
Repeat with “Does anybody here have a birthday in ?”
THE DRIVE-THRU SONG (THE TEENIE BEANIE SONG)
They say there is a limit of one per auto occupant
So I'm hitting every drive-thru in this town
It's the Teenie-Beanie sales promotion,
And it's become my life's devotion
To get all 12 this time around
CHORUS
I've been renting cars and neighbors' Kids,
and putting on disguises
My freezers full of burgers I bought
Just to get the prizes
And I confess I've done it all
There is no trick I haven't tried
What I wouldn't do, what I haven't done
To get a teeny beanie
Meanwhile back at the drive-thru
Father Al speaks
Those squawk boxes are hard to hear
I don't need extra french fries dear
No I don't want the special of the day
I just want a meal to make me happy
A plush toy with a name that's sappy
If that station wagon was just out of my way
REPEAT CHORUS
Meanwhile back at the drive thru …
The State Patrol
Meanwhile back at the drive thru
Ray the barber
BEANIE LULLABY (“HEARTS IN STARLIGHT”)
You and your Beanies have had quite a day
Full of fun and full of play
Gather your Beanie friends around
Close your eyes, lay your head down
CHORUS
And a star shines down on you and me
Wherever life may find us
When you look and see the twinkling sky
You'll remember you and me
Our hearts in starlight
Hearts in starlight
And you ask me what it means
This star inside the heart
It means I'm with you everywhere
Together and apart
REPEAT CHORUS
As the years go by and you have grown
And we are apart
You will always know I'm with you
The star inside your heart
REPEAT CHORUS
All songs written by Six Akimbo
A Friendship Story
The Gone Collectin story began when Ken, a musician, decided to write a song for his friend, Janet, who is an avid Beanie collector. One song soon led to another. When she heard his songs, Janet said, “If other people love collecting as much as I do, they'll love these songs.” Ken asked his friends in the music business to help him produce a professional Beanie album for Janet and collectors everywhere.
Date added: 5/6/2012
Thomas Dolby, Europa and the Pirate Twins (at the beginning)
The Cure
(last song on Boys Don't Cry)
Black Sabbath
Tangerine Dream
Today I Met the Boy I'm Going to Marry, Darlene Love, refers to Here Comes the Bride
A Quiet Place, Garnett Mimms and the Enchanters, mentions Sweet Adeline
Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun, Julie Brown (not Downtown Julie Brown), mentions Evergreen
Date added: 4/29/2012
What's with David Bowie and mandolins* and wildness?:
“and the hangman plays the mandolin”
The Wild-Eyed Boy from Freecloud
“I hear the sound of mandolins”
Wild Is the Wind
in the latter, Bowie's wild mandolin obsession drove him to cover the Johnny Mathis tune
*or Rod Stewart for that matter: Mandolin Wind and mandolin use in Maggie May and Gasoline Alley
Who's a better guitar player, Neal Schon or Craig Chaquico?
Unforgettable
Unbelievable
The Ruby and the Pearl
The Sand and the Sea
Herbie Hancock
Chick Corea
Date added: 4/22/2012
I'm a fan of the late 70s and early 70s books by the Briethaupt brothers. (I posted a couple excerpts here.) The early 70s book has a list of songs using buzzwords. Their list includes Do Your Thing, Isaac Hayes; If It Feels Good, Do It, Ian Lloyd & Stories; Love Means (You Never Have to Say You're Sorry), Sounds of Sunshine. Getting common expressions wrong, as Sounds of Sunshine have done here, is another category on this site: here, here, and here
We've Got to Get Ourselves Together, Delaney & Bonnie
Gonna Make You an Offer You Can't Refuse, Jimmy Helms
no doubt inspired by the Godfather, as the next entry was inspired by the Terminator II
“hasta la vista, baby,” in Looking for a New Love, Jody Watley
“don't want to tell you how to run your scene,” in Rock & Roll Crazies, Stephen Stills
Keep On Truckin', Eddie Kendricks
“different strokes for different folks,” in Everyday People, Sly & the Family Stone
Three titles on the album Restrictions, by Cactus:
Tokin' Chokin'
Guiltless Glider
Bag Drag
Could I've Been So Blind, Black Crowes
My existence led by confusion boats: Absolutely Almost Fabulously Famous Counting Cameron's Blue Jack Black Kurt Russell's daughter Sheryl Terrier Cars Crows Crowes
Date added: 4/15/2012
Please Be Somewhere Tonight, Pezband
“Take a chance you stupid ho”
What Are You Waiting For?, Gwen Stefani
not sure, but I think she's addressing herself, which would go into a category I've got some stuff for, Self-Loathing: A Theme from the 90s On
“We were so close /
There was no room /
We bled inside each other's wounds”
Lay Down (Candles in the Rain) – Melanie
Mungo Jerry's “In the Summertime” presciently anticipates the problem of drunk driving (“Have a drink, have a drive”), Melanie's “bleeding inside each other's wounds” anticipates the problem of AIDS
“There's a flame from the stack /
And that smoke's a blowin' black as coal”
Six Days on the Road – Dave Dudley
the pre-pc confessions of an air polluter
Date added: 4/6/2012
Sandman, America
“He flies the sky like an eagle in the eye /
Of a hurricane that's abandoned”
call Triple A
Tom Courtenay
Barnaby, Hardly Working
They Don't Know, Tracey Ullman, was written by Kirsty MacColl
Bobby Womack wrote Breezin', George Benson
Dinosaur Jr.'s greatest hits alb is called Ear-Bleeding Country
Kylie Minogue covered Give Me Just a Little More Time
Date added: 4/1/2012
Unholy Stench
Listless Awakening
Surprise for the Fortune Teller
Prepped for Damnation
Triplets of Goats
Outrageously Heinous
Hot-Rods of Doom
Praying for Burial
Invective
Concrete Pillories
Measured Remnants
Date added: 3/24/2012
Here Comes the Hotstepper, Ini Kamoze, quotes Land of a Thousand Dances, Wilson Pickett and others
Burning Farm, Shonen Knife, quotes Land of a Thousand Dances
Power, Lipps Inc., quotes Venus, Shocking Blue, “he's got it, yeah baby, he's got it” [changes gender]
Ground Level, Stereo MCs, quotes Really Saying Something, Bananarama (the MCs' quote is of a Bananarama vocal element that's not in the Velvelettes' version)
Hitchin' a Ride, Vanity Fare, quotes Venus, Shocking Blue
Venus, Shocking Blue quotes Money, Barrett Strong; also Shocking Blue pronounces “goddess” as “godness,” revealing Dutchness?
Radiation, Suicide, quotes Money (more Suicide below)
Mad Cyril, Happy Mondays, quotes Sympathy for the Devil, Rolling Stones
Never Coming Down Again (Part 1), Spacehog, quotes Sympathy for the Devil, Rolling Stones
Funk #49, James Gang, quotes Sympathy for the Devil, Rolling Stones
Lose to Live, Strawberry Alarm Clock (alb w/Incense and Peppermints), tribute quotes Satisfaction, Rolling Stones
Let Me, Paul Revere & the Raiders, quotes Satisfaction, Rolling Stones
(sound file to come)
Antiworld, Nina Hagen, quotes Third Stone from the Sun, Jimi Hendrix
Dance with the Devil, Cozy Powell, quotes Third Stone from the Sun, Jimi Hendrix
Baby, Please Don't Go, Amboy Dukes, quotes Third Stone from the Sun
Bite the Hand, ABC, quotes Papa Was a Rollin' Stone, Temptations
Good Thing, Paul Revere & The Raiders has a Beach Boys tribute section
tribute_good-thing_beach-boys.mp3
This one's crazy. My original note said there was Beach Boys and Monkees, but now I don't see Monkees (maybe at beginning). But in this clip, there's a little Mamas & the Papas moment at 0:12 - 0:16, then Beach Boys at 0:22 - 0:28, followed by something fairly close to the Who's Substitute guitar riff
Golden Age of Leather, Blue Oyster Cult, quotes Good Vibrations, Beach Boys
Southside Girl, Don Dixon, quotes Needles and Pins, Searchers
Push It, Salt n Pepa, quotes You Really Got Me, Kinks
Believe Me, Stories, quotes Whole Lotta Love, Led Zeppelin
Ride the Sky, Lucifer's Friend, quotes Immigrant Song, Led Zeppelin
When I first made this note, I assumed without checking that the Lucifer's Friend was later, but a friend informed me that, in fact, it's one of the canonical Jimmy Page rip-offs
don't have it, but it's at @0:58 in this youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rACzxgW8c4
The Return of Jackie and Judy, Ramones, quotes Pretty Vacant, Sex Pistols
Lexicon Devil, Germs, quotes EMI, Sex Pistols
Serious, Talk Talk, quotes The Court of the Crimson King, King Crimson
tribute_serious_court-of-the-crimson-king.mp3
I wish there were more tribute quotes of songs like this
That's the Way (I Like It), KC & the Sunshine Band quotes Funky Stuff, Kool & the Gang, at end
Hit the Floor, Earthquake, quotes Born to Be Wild, Steppenwolf, at least
Share That Beat of Love, C+C Music Factory, quotes Rock with You, Michael Jackson
Demons Are Real, Guided by Voices, quotes I Want You/She's So Heavy, Beatles, or is it Cheap Trick's Downed?, which itself quotes Dear Prudence
Sofa (of My Lethargy), Supergrass, quotes Norwegian Wood, Beatles
Pretty in Pink, Psychedelic Furs, organ flourish gets close to famous Al Kooper part in in Like a Rolling Stone, Bob Dylan
Pretty in Pink, Psychedelic Furs, riff is pretty similar to Girl of My Dreams, Bram Tchaikovsky, though it would probably be a regular soundalike, rather than a tribute
No Tears Tonight, Murray Attaway (gone solo lead singer of Guadalcanal Diary), quotes Girl of My Dreams, Bram Tchaikovsky
A Groove of Love (What's This Thing Called Love), C+C Music Factory, quotes Tom's Diner, Suzanne Vega
Tom's Diner, Suzanne Vega, itself quotes Popcorn, by Hot Butter
Bad Wisdom, Suzanne Vega, Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Gordon Lightfoot
Bizarre Love Triangle, New Order, quotes AEIOU-sometimes-Y, Ebn Ozn
The Film of My Love, 10cc is rewrite/alt-universe of Can't Help Falling in Love, Elvis Presley
Halo of Flies, Alice Cooper, quotes My Favorite Things, Julie Andrews
(to come)
Leaving Las Vegas, Sheryl Crow, quotes The Joker, Steve Miller
Tell Her Tonight, Franz Ferdinand, section sounds like the Turtles
Slider, T-Rex, quotes Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher, Jackie Wilson
Dark of the Matinee, Franz Ferdinand, quotes Hava Nagila
Last Train to Heaven, Urge Overkill, tribute/rewrite of I Wanna Be Your Dog, Stooges
tribute_last-train-to-heaven_i-wanna-be-your-dog.mp3
Date added: 9/24/2011
“All the time you know she's smilin' /
You'll be on your knees tomorrow,”
Do It Again, Steely Dan
Sundown, Gordon Lightfoot
Date added: 4/4/2011
It Takes People Like You to Make People Like Me, Buck Owens
Ain't It Sanitary? (also in vocab)
Deodorant Song
Love Potion #9
yes, it's mainly a Clovers song (the other Leiber/Stoller group with “C”), but the Coasters did it too
Third-Rate Romance, Amazing Rhythm Aces
He came back with the key /
She said, “give it to me /
And I'll unlock the door”
Get Busy
Temperature
Most versions of Roll On Buddy say,
“If you knew what I know, you wouldn't roll so slow”
vs., one version at least that says,
“You wouldn't roll so slow, if you knew what I know”
One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer, Amos Milburn
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer, John Lee Hooker
Addendum:
Since posting this, I saw this song used in Glee (ugh), and they used Bourbon first, which caused me to haul from the memory banks that George Thorogood did this song and he put Bourbon first. (I assume Thorogood's version is what got the song on Glee.) Did Thorogood put Bourbon first because of J. L. Hooker?, or because of some other Bourbon-putting-first version? Inquiring minds want to know.
Date added: 3/21/2011
Holly St. James, on a Kent R&B comp
Holly & the Italians, alb, seen but not bought
Holly George or Holly St. George or Holly George Warren, writer
An appetizer, two Run Boy deep voice country songs …
Run, Boy, Run, Lee Hazelwood
Run Boy, Don Gibson
… leads into the Run Run Run group of songs. Two of them are on Nuggets comps. (I wondered, would either of them be covers of the Who, or of VU; or maybe the VU was some garage rock thing from Lou Reed's garage rock days?) Turns out they're all different. There's also a Supremes song, which I haven't included because it wasn't part of my initial speculation. (The Gestures and the Supremes have commas.) Run Red Run, by the Coasters thrown in for good measure.
Run Run Run, The Third Rail (first Nuggets)
Run, Run, Run, The Gestures (later Nuggets)
Run Run Run, Velvet Underground
Run Run Run, The Who
Run Run Run, Jo Jo Gunne http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buMg7cDtlls,
Run Red Run, The Coasters
Trip Shakespeare, Thelonious Monster – for a long time, when I would see a record by one, wouldn't immediately be able to think of the name of the other group (6/11/2011 add: throw in Trotsky Icepick – just saw them mentioned on Christgau's site)
Morphine, Codeine, Coil, Come, Cell, Cake, Sloan, Smog, Shellac, Sublime
Konk (from Christgau's 80s list), Kong, Korn, Pond, Tool, Members, Membranes, Melvins, Rammstein, Helvet, Helmet, Helium, Unsane, Unrest, Beat Happening
Bud Harper, Roy Harper, Ben Harper, (Led Zeppelin's Hats Off to (Roy) Harper)
Mumps, Muffs, Scruffs (power pop), Stills, Shins, Shirts, Shoes
Belly, Breeders, Echobelly, Elastica, Veruca Salt, Velocity Girl, the Vels, Belle Stars
Cat Heads, Fetchin' Bones, Pushtwangers (female)
Modern English, Modern Romance
Ben Vaughn (Combo), Ben Folds (Five)
Michael Hedges, Michael Hurley
Cornershop, Chapterhouse, Easterhouse, Sparklehorse
Fleet Foxes, Fiery Furnaces, Friendly Fires
Lush, Luna
Birthday Party, Wedding Present
Buffalo Tom, Grant Lee Buffalo
Fotomaker, Jim Photoglo, Randy Vanwarmer
Material Issue, Miracle Legion
Animotion, Alphaville, Dramarama
Cannanes, Spinanes
Letters to Cleo, Death Cab for Cutie (prepositions and (nick?)names with “C”)
Roni Size, Labi Siffre, Maxi Priest
Doctor Rock, Ween
Calling Dr. Love, Kiss
Dr. Love, First Choice
Doctor's Orders, Carol Douglas
Date added: 11/8/2010
John Duffy and the classic lineup of the Country Gentlemen, doing a tune I haven't been able to find out much about
This discgraphy says it may first have been the b-side of the Starday 1963 single of Copper Kettle, and then appeared also on Yesterday and Today, Vol. 3 (Rebel)
Date added: 10/25/2010
Who Wouldn't Be Jealous of You? (1928)
(Larry Shay - Haven Gillespie - George Frommel)
Who wouldn't be jealous of a girl like you and
Who wouldn't be watching everything you do
I'm on my toes, for goodness knows
When you go out you're marvelous hard to doubt but hard to trust
Who wouldn't be hanging round your neighbourhood
On the Street Where You Live
And oh, the towering feeling just to know somehow you are near
The overpowering feeling that any second you may suddenly appear
People stop and stare, they don't bother me
For there's nowhere else on earth that I would rather be
Let the time go by, I won't care …
Date added: 7/23/2010
Dancing with Tears in My Eyes
Leadbelly
Ultravox
Mama Said
Shirelles
Metallica
Date added: 7/2/2010
Since You Been Gone, Rainbow
Reelin' in the Years, Steely Dan
Did I Hear You Say You Love Me, Stevie Wonder (Hotter Than July)
Fool for the City, Foghat
Too High, Stevie Wonder (1973)
Humpty Dumpty, Joy of Cooking (1971?)
bassline; both are also similar to Wack Wack, Young Holt Unlimited
The Flame, Cheap Trick
Nature's Way, Spirit
Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd
Almost Independence Day, Van Morrison
Fly Like an Eagle, Steve Miller Band
Grandma's Hands, Bill Withers
fly-like-an-eagle_grandma_s-hands.mp3
(oops. I think I did the wrong parts of these songs. Will remove this note when new version done)
Breakfast in America, Supertramp
You're a Very Lovely Woman, The Merry-Go-Round
Date added: 6/6/2010
Superwoman/Where Were You When I Needed You, Stevie Wonder
Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding, Elton John
Iron Horse/Born to Lose, Motorhead
City of Gold/Fly by Night Lady, Head East
Peace Frog/Blue Sunday, Doors
Date added: 5/2/2010
Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen – Santana
Fallin' In and Out of Love with You/Amie – Pure Prairie League
Livin' Lovin' Maid/Heartbreaker – Led Zeppelin
This Beat Goes On/Switchin' to Glide – The Kings
No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature – Guess Who
Prelude/Nothing to Hide – Spirit
Candy Man, Mississippi John Hurt
Candy Man, Roy Orbison
Candy Man, Grateful Dead
Candy Man, Sammy Davis Jr.
Candy Man, Sweathog
Date added: 4/27/2010
Crazy Train, Ozzy Osbourne (1980)
Y.M.C.A., Village People (1978)
Date added: 4/4/2010
All's I can say is beware ye who enter LL's Smooth Talker
I might have put up only that mp3, but for the fact that someone involved with the Hagman track got the idea from Janis Ian to use the word “debentures.” There is a percentage in that kind of jive
Side 1
Dreamin', John Schneider
Ballad Of The Good Luck Charm, Larry Hagman
If You Want To Come Home, Lisa Hartman
Are You Lonesome Tonight, John Schneider & Jill Michaels
Side 2
Fools Like Me, Lorenzo Lamas
Walk Away, Lisa Hartman
It's Now Or Never, John Schneider
My Favorite Sins, Larry Hagman
Do You Love Me, David Hasselhoff
In which the song title is an internally referenced song (portmanteau probably doesn't mean this)
Oh Yeah, Roxy Music – “they're playin' Oh Yeah on the radio”
Tennessee Waltz, Patti Page
Kentucky Waltz, Bill Monroe
Truck Drivin' Man, George Hamilton IV
“won't somebody stop and help a guy?”
–Hitchin' a Ride, Vanity Fare
“a guy?” – you mean, you? you want me to help . . . you?
Date Added: 3/27/2010
I once heard Brian Bosworth of the 1985-86 champion Chicago Bears say his football playing was the equivalent of Eddie Van Halen's guitar playing; Patti Labelle's singing is the human-voice equivalent
I play 1, 2, 3, 8, 11 (12, 5, 7 eventually)
Side 1
Side 2
Date Added: 3/21/2010
A Muse, All
Of Wolf and Man, Metallica
harmony all the way through
slow-build thriller
Date Added: 3/13/2010
I'll Kill a Brick about My Man, Hot Sauce
Date Added: 3/1/2010
One Monkey Don't Stop No Show, Honeycone
Written by Joe Tex
One Chain Don't Make No Prison, Four Tops
Why did Pearl Jam do a song called Even Flow?
Date Added: 2/24/2010
Lisa Says
Candy Says
Stephanie Says
Date Added: 2/20/2010
Da Doo Ron Ron, by the Crystals, is as it's printed, but the sound of the record is De Doo Run Run
“It's like trying to tell a stranger 'bout a rock and roll” – is there more than one rock and roll to tell the stranger about, or does the enormity of the task of telling someone about rock and roll for the first time elicit a pause (“about, uh, rock and roll”)?
–Do You Believe in Magic, Lovin' Spoonful
“grandmas sit in chairs and rem-o-nice” – long o sound
–The Beat Goes On, Sonny & Cher
“only you can-d-make”
–Only You, Platters
“I'll meet you at your house at a quarter to height” – he means eight but for some reason says “hate”
–Baby We've Got a Date (Rock It Baby), Bob Marley
“don't dizgard me”
–Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me, Elton John
I'm not the only one who noticed: Christgau: “Yes, I hate the way he says 'don't dizgard me' too”
Date Added: 2/15/2010
Is the La's the start of Britpop?
Birdman of Alkatrash, Strawberry Alarm Clock (b-side of Incense and Peppermints)
Date Added: 2/9/2010
A fiddle tune can have more than one title, or two titles refer to two tunes that are very similar. Examples are: Lost Indian (how it's known on most recordings) and Cherokee Shuffle (how it seems to be known to fiddlers I meet); College Hornpipe, aka Sailor's Hornpipe (the “Popeye theme”)
From four great mandolinists, these are four versions of the same tune, with two titles – Back Up and Push, and Rubber Dolly (the Jethro Burns is Back (It) Up and Push)
Not much about Paul Buskirk appears to be on the Internet, but Deke Dickerson recently put up a youtube of Buskirk in a movie, and he's put up some other great pickin' http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=KoolKlipsFromDeke#p/u/21/8fWQBA-i0Tc
Back It Up and Push - Jethro Burns
Back Up and Push - Bill Monroe
And, here is an unrelated tune, Step It Up and Go - Maddox Brothers and Rose
Date Added: 2/7/2010
Confusion – New Order
AEIOU Sometimes Y – Ebn Ozn
IOU – Freeez
Remember What You Like – Jenny Burton
“There's a killer on the road / His brain is squirmin' like a toad”
Riders on the Storm, Doors
“She'll rock you in the night-time till your skin turns red”
Witchy Woman, Eagles
Date Added: 2/2/2010
When I Grow Up to Be a Man, Beach Boys
Date added: 1/26/2010
“TRB's [Tom Robinson Band's] 1977 debut '2-4-6-8 Motorway' sounded like Status Quo with a middle class vocalist” (p. 99)
Wm: Really?!?!
Nipple Erectors (later Nips) vocalist Shane O'Hooligan, later reverted to orig name McGowan
Riff Raff member Billy Bragg – early 2nd wave UK punk
Poly Styrene's orig name is Marion Elliott
Tom Miller & Richard Meyers – Tom Verlaine & Richard Hell
Stuart Goddard – Adam Ant
Henry Padovani is the guitarist whom Andy Summers replaced in the early Police
Wm: a CD comp I have called Lost Hits has a band called the Flying Padovanis, song Piu in Alto
“The US assimilation of punk rock would not take place until the early 1990s, when its championing by Nirvana would inject some …”
The quote “are we not men?” is from the SF movie The Island of Lost Souls
The Corpse Grinders, w/ex-New York Doll Arthur Kane and Rick Rivets
New York: The Shirts were melodic power pop, as were the Criminals, led by ex-New York Doll, Sylvain Sylvain
“Nina Hagen ['s] … main claim to involvement with punk rock seemed to stem from her Siouxsie-ish application of mascara. In reality, she was a young acolyte of the European bohemian/post-hippie scene, who enjoyed a close relationship with Dutch junkie rocker Herman Brood”
Ruzan Pamean, “I Mlad” (Serbian), not the first punk group from that region, is “indicative of the post-punk sound subsequently epitomised by Joy Division.”
Pistols Cook and Jones joined Thin Lizzy on the Greedies' Christmas song “A Merry Jingle” (Greedies, formerly known as the Greedy Bastards)
Spizz Energi: “Where's Captain Kirk?”
Look into band: Kleenex
Look into band: Skids (Into the Valley – what does it sound like? what style is it?)
Look into band: Swell Maps
Rezillos changed name to Revillos to escape a bad contract
Monochrome Set (is in Group Name, Song Title – are they ex-members of Adam and the Ants?)
Date added: 1/21/2010
Old Days – Chicago (1975)
I'm Your Captain – Grand Funk Railroad (1970)
I love this one. The swirling string section is also in Love's Theme by Barry White's Love Unlimited Orchestra from 1973
Primal Scream – Motley Crue (not putting in umlaut)
Shake Your Body – Jacksons
Don't Look Back in Anger – Oasis
Pretty Flamingo – Rod Stewart (tribute cover of) Manfred Mann
Elsewhere, the Oasis song has a guitar section just like the guitar in Rod Stewart's Tonight's the Night (a many-songed title)
Wonderwall – Oasis
Take Me to the Pilot – Elton John
“but I don't know ho-o-ow” – Oasis
[leads into …] “Take me to the pilot” – Elton John
Wonderwall – Oasis
Sandman – America
“And all the roads we have to walk are winding” – Oasis
“Cos I understand you been runnin' from the man (that goes by the name of the sandman)” – America
Come Out and Play – Offspring
Runaway Boys – Stray Cats
“you're under 18 you won't be doing any ti-ee-ime [time]” – Offspring
“you're only 15 and can't get a job” – Stray Cats
comeoutandplay-runawayboys.mp3
Date added: 1/17/2010
The Mountain's High, Dick & Dee Dee
Money, Flying Lizards
Date added: 9/6/2009
the intros of these sound the same
(this is just an excuse to mention this superb Steve Miller Band song, written and sung by drummer Tim Davis. The main part of the song chugs along, and then that trippy breakdown)
1979 – Smashing Pumpkins
Harborcoat – R.E.M
“she … don't even try” – Smashing Pumpkins
“she's … comin' from the harborcoat” – R.E.M.
Date Added: 3/25/2008
Other than that it's obvious, why do a lot of songs about jail have a homosexual undercurrent?, the ready example: “Jailhouse Rock”, but also “Rubber Bullets” (10cc) (rubber? effeminate singing).
What's paradoxical about “Me and Mrs. Jones”? Mrs. Jones isn't Mrs. Jones's real name
Here are some items from earlier that didn't have sound files
Highwire – Linda Carr
My mother used to say, “so and so is goony” or “don't be goony,” which expresses well the way Carr pronounces “highwire,” essentially as “how are you.”
“Nice and Slow” Jesse Green from double cd Let's Go Disco has Herb Alpert-style horn fills, sublime
Stop Alternating – Vulgar Boatmen
In addition to the refrain, “stop alternatin,” this song uses the word “vacillation.” This is the only song by this group I know (I have it on a promotional comp), but I like it.
Date Added: 8/15/2007
“Stupid” is, like, the Psychedelic Furs' favorite adjective. Below are the “stupid”-containing songs and lines, all from the first album
INDIA
'Stupid on the carpet floor'
'Stupid on the carpet floor'
'This is for the discotheque / This is stupid I object'
SISTER EUROPE
'Stupid on a steinway'
'The radio upon the floor / Is stupid, it plays Aznavour'
'Even dreams must fall to rules / So stupidly'
FALL
'Sail upon the stupid sea'
'Parties for our stupid friends'
'We will live our stupid dream'
'Flowers for our stupid friends'
'Parties for our stupid friends'
'We will live our stupid dream'
WE LOVE YOU
'We are so stupid, we all dream'
FLOWERS
'And out of him came stupid light'
“Paint me like the shirt I'm in”
Sister Europe – Psychedelic Furs
'I'm in love with your blue cars'
. . .
'Love is just a car like you'
'That turns so blue and turns so blue'
'No blue cars will run my world'
Date Added: 10/31/2006
I Want to Tell You – Beatles
“So if you think that I'm unkind / It's only me and not my mind . . . [long pause makes you think a new line is starting] that is confusing things.” I always thought there was an error. I thought the idea involved a full stop, as in, “So if you think that I'm unkind, it's only me and not my mind. That is a confusing thing.” I thought it was a misspeak in which Harrison wrongly pluralized “things.” Recording a song in the midst of a rewrite, or reshaping of the lyrics, is not unprecedented. In Killer Queen, Queen was moving between “fastidious and precise” and “meticulous and precise” and wound up with the nonexistent word, “mesticulous.”
Urban Guerilla – Hawkwind
Search & Destroy – Iggy & the Stooges
Is it possible this is a real rip-off?
Put a Little Love in Me – Delegation
“I was sent here to ask you to put a little love in me”
Date Added: 1/1/2006
Jay Black, (name changed from David Blatt), big-voiced, white singer of Jay & The Americans, a 50s-60s bridging group. Black replaced group-founder singer John “Jay” Traynor who sang “She Cried.” Jay Black sang the group's biggest song “Come a Little Bit Closer” and also “Cara Mia”
Johnny Maestro (& The Crests) (& The Brooklyn Bridge), big-voiced, white singer. Maestro also bridged the 50s-60s in these two groups, singing “Sixteen Candles” and “Step by Step” for the Crests and “The Worst That Could Happen” for the Brooklyn Bridge.
The 50s hits of these groups are typical simplistic teen songs, whereas their 60s entries “Come a Little Bit Closer” and “The Worst That Could Happen” are high-concept lyrically ambitious songs. Also I can't keep the two straight when they appear on oldies revival PBS shows.
Date Added: 12/27/2005
Lazy Lagoon – Anjali
From Real Fidelity comp.
Don't Make the Same Mistake as I Did – Johnny Kidd
Date Added: 12/16/2005
Hearts of Stone – Charms
Repetitions of “no” = 14, in two different places = 28
Ain't No Sunshine – Bill Withers
Repetitions of “I know” = 24
Ain't No Sunshine – Al Jarreau
Repetitions of “I know” = ?, probably 24 like Bill Withers's
Satisfaction – Devo
Repetitions of “baby” = 32
I'll let a commenter (hello, are you out there?) do Nobody But Me by the Human Beinz
Date Added: 12/6/2005
Psycho Killer – Talking Heads
Credit: Thanks, Colin
Date Added: 12/4/2005
Little Red Book by Love (and Manfred Mann, written by Bacharach & David); the common expression is “little black book.”
Cissy Strut – The Meters
(What a) Wonderful World – Bryan Ferry
Actually has a calypso element, with steel drums
Date Added: 11/14/2005
One of the reasons I wanted to do this site was that years ago I would go on the Internet looking to see that others shared my perplexed dismay verging into alarm that the lyrics of this song are “I believe when the dogs do smell her, will she smell alone.” (Not to mention being ungrammatical in a few ways.)
When searching several years ago for explanations/interpretations of this song the best I could come up with was fansites where the Leslie Fiedlers of their time decided it was “a song Scott Weiland wrote about his girlfriend.” Yeah, it was commonplace in 90s relationships to sic a pack of dogs on your girlfriend so they could smell whether she'd really “been alone,” as she so innocently claimed. (And how were the dogs supposed to communicate their findings to Scott?)
I'm pleased to report, though, that since my original research (did I say that was 4 or 5 years ago?), the level of discourse on the Web has risen. In the entries below I found at www.lyrical-interpretations.com there's some mention of the dogs.
e5rtt
he could be refering to his freinds in the song, for when he sings when the dogs do find her he could mean when his friends do find her. Also when he sings the times a wasted go he could mean hangin with his freinds doing nothing.
This song is about “hooking up”
I think that this song is about sex. When he sings “and I feel times a wasted go - where ya going to tomorrow”. It's like he is saying - Why waste time, lets get together tomorrow. Then “I see that these are lies to come - would you even care”. He is saying that he already knows that this affair will end badly, but who cares? Cuz “I feel it”. I think the referral to dogs smelling her is sexual, like dogs sniffing for a partner. Then “I think that so much depends on the weather, so is it raining in your bedroom”. It is like he is saying let's not make small talk about the weather, lets get to your bedroom.
–Linda A.S.W.
thoughts of a serial killer?
perfect example of killer (no pun intended) music w/unnerving lyrics. irony rules here: musically upbeat/driving, but lyrically dark. great metaphors going on: wasted/wasting time; eyes of disarray; mask (one you wear for others or society; one that others or society wear(s);and one you don't even know you have on) = hints of serial killer mentality; dogs/smell/find her/alone? = victim/possibly multiples. whoa - maybe too much CSI/Cold Case Files? but also could be just a protest against society/status quo = why look forward to tomorrow when everything is fake and a lie? sorta like the Eagles' Hotel California: either a sinister song about satanic rituals or about the decadence of Hollywood.
And there's a veritable Algonquin Round Table going on at http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=3422
Date Added: 11/10/2005
AC/DC (Angus Young)
Easybeats, Flash and the Pan (George Young)
.38 Special (Donnie Van Zant)
Lynyrd Skynyrd (Ronnie Van Zant)
Fabulous Thunderbirds (Jimmie Vaughan)
Stevie Ray Vaughan
I know, easy, but so what?
Hot Tuna, America's Choice: “Warning: This album to be played at full volume for maximum effect”
On the front of the album, no less (great cover by the way)
“Got a funky walk / In his little orthopedic shoes”
Rockin' Roll Baby – Stylistics
Oh Let the Sun Shine In – Pebbles (?), on The Flintstones
Silver Bell – Doc Williams
A Bad Time Was Had by All
Joe's Garage – Frank Zappa
Mexican Shuffle – Herb Alpert
some U2 song –
slow song on side 1 of Black Sabbath 4
Date Added: 11/1/2005
Bad Wisdom – Suzanne Vega
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald – Gordon Lightfoot
Space Truckin' – Deep Purple
Down on the Street – Stooges
Soul Finger – Bar-Kays, others
Lucille – Little Richard
Little Richard: “Please come back where you belong”
More Than a Feeling – Boston
Words – Bee Gees
“It's only words, and words are all I have / to take your heart away”
leads into high, squeaky guitar part of More, right before the descending thing, coming out of the verse
Wind Beneath My Wings – Gladys Knight & The Pips (1983)
Wind Beneath My Wings – Lee Greenwood (1984)
To go in Covers
“You've Got Another Thing Comin'” Judas Priest. (also to go in Song Titles) The common expression is “you've got another think coming,” not thing.
Aw Shucks, Hush Your Mouth – Jimmy Reed
(If You Cry) True Love, True Love – Drifters
Reed from tape, Drifters from Pomus & Shuman comp
Big Boss Man – Jimmy Reed
“You ain't so big, you just talk that's all”
that may be, but I can still fire your sorry ass
Sweet Home Alabama – Lynyrd Skynyrd
“Hope Neil Young will remember / A southern man don't need him round anyhow”
After having the whole ethos, history, and self-image of southerners hung out to dry by Neil Young in “Southern Man” the best comeback the self-appointed defenders of the south's virtue can come up with is the equivalent of “yeah, well nuts to you too”
In the grand tradition of the Talkin Blues that Dylan made several of, imitating Woody Guthrie, and just for good measure, one by Woody himself
Radar Blues – Coleman Wilson
Talking Dust Bowl Blues – Woody Guthrie
Steve Perry's solo hit title rhymes with his last name: “Oh Sherrie”
Hipgnosis album covers that are mostly white: Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here; Led Zeppelin, Presence
Or, at least, there's some kind of discrepancy between singers and how much “play” they get in the group
Squeeze
Okay, Difford's voice is admittedly inferior, so he can't legitimately claim 50/50 but he should get more than one per album or one per side. I like his voice and think it's interesting. I'm sure there's even kneejerk contrarians out there who would say his voice is superior to Tilbrook's